Dr. Leonard Brown is the Interim Chair and an Associate Professor in the Computer
Science Department at The University of Texas at Tyler. He received his Ph.D. in Computer
Science from The University of Oklahoma in 2003. Prior to that, he was a Member of
Technical Staff-I at AT&T in Oklahoma City. His research interests include multimedia
database management systems and information retrieval. He has published over a dozen
technical articles in journals and conference proceedings, and he was awarded a NASA
Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2004 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

Lidan FanAssistant Professor of Computer SciencePhD. The University of Texas at Dallas

Areas of teaching and research interest: Data Communications and networking, Database
Management, Data Mining and Security in Network Environments, especially in Social
Networks, Algorithms and Theory of Computing.

Dr. Lidan Fan is the Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at The
University of Texas at Tyler. She received her Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer
Science, The University of Texas at Dallas in 2014. Her research interests include
data mining and security in network environments, especially in social networks, algorithms
and theory of computing.

Dr. Arun Kulkarni, Professor of Computer Science, has been with The University of
Texas at Tyler since 1986 and currently serves as interim chair of the department.
He has more than sixty refereed papers to his credit, and he has authored two books.
His awards include the 2005-2006 President's Scholarly Achievement Award, 2001-2002
Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching award, 1999-2000 Alpha Chi Outstanding Faculty
Member, 1997 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship award, 1997 Piper award nominee for
The University of Texas at Tyler, and the 1984 Fulbright Fellowship award. He has
successfully completed eight research grants during the past ten years.

Kay PleasantSenior Lecturer of Computer ScienceMS, The University of Texas at Tyler

Ms. Pleasant serves as lead advisor for all entering computer science and computer
information systems students. She was co-PI for U.T. Tyler's involvement in the Infinity
Project and most recently served as student contests coordinator for the Texas Computer
Education Association. Kay holds Texas teaching certification in computer science
8-12.

Dr. Stephen Rainwater is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Texas at Tyler. His professional career spans thirty-six years as a teacher of
computer science and mathematics at the high school, community college, and university
levels...the last thirty-two years as a faculty member at U.T. Tyler. Over the course
of this time, he has taught more than twenty-five undergraduate and fifteen graduate
courses. His research interest has primarily focused on the effectiveness of using
low/no-cost software tools and techniques for teaching concepts in computer science.

Dr. Rainwater's professional leadership has included service as President of the Texas
Computer Education Association (TCEA), Computer Science Representative on the governing
board of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), President of
the East Texas Council of Teachers of Mathematics, program co-chair of the 1988 NCTM
Southwestern Regional Conference, and mathematics section chair of the Texas Academy
of Science. As an officer of TCEA, Dr. Rainwater on numerous occasions gave expert
testimony re: computer science to the Texas State Board of Education and the State
Board for Educator Certification. At U.T. Tyler, he has served as President of the
Faculty Senate and director of an NSF-funded undergraduate research program which
endeavors to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing careers
in STEM fields. In 2006, Dr. Rainwater was recognized with the UT-System Chancellor's
Council Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2008, he was awarded the Lecil and Barbara
Chandler Endowed Professorship in Computer Science. His doctoral dissertation researched
the predictive effects of community college student characteristics on academic achievement
in computer science at the university level.

Nary SubramanianAssociate Professor of Computer SciencePhD., The University of Texas at Dallas

Areas of teaching and research interest: Software Engineering, Systems Engineering,
and Security Engineering.

Dr. Subramanian is the Faculty Fellow for Service Learning at the Center for Teaching
Excellence and Innovation at UT Tyler. For the past ten years he has been the lead
instructor for the Capstone Project course which incorporates a strong collaboration
with the industry. He participated in the Visiting Faculty Research Program with the
US Air Force in 2011 and 2012. He co-founded the workshop series International Workshop
on System/Software Architectures in 2002 and co-chaired ten editions of this workshop.
He was voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year in the Department of Computer Science
in 2008 by students. He is also a trained cyber-forensic instructor for the first
responders in law enforcement.

Lidong WuAssistant Professor of Computer SciencePhD. The University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Wu joined the Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Tyler
August, 2014. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University
of Texas at Dallas in 2012 and 2014, respectively. She was a Research Assistant in
the Data Communication and Data Management Lab and a Teaching Assistant at the Erik
Jonsson School during 2010-2014. In addition, she has 5 years of industry experience
in software development and web, mobile communication. She has finished 24 peer-reviewed
research papers published in or accepted by reputable journals and international conferences.
Her research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and partly
by the Natural Science Foundation of China.​